*Voting Procedure
*There will be an accreditation to verify that everyone who presents a voter’s card is on the voters’ register. accreditation will take place from 8 am to 12 pm.

*Every person with a valid voter’s card in the accreditation queue by noon will be accredited, and voters on the queue will be counted and total number announced before actual voting commences.

*After accreditation, there will be a 30 minute break to prepare for voting and inform voters about the voting procedure.

*At 12.30 pm, the queue for voting will be formed and a physical headcount taken – verification that each person in the queue has been accredited will take place.

*Voters on the queue shall approach the table one at a time, receive the ballot paper, proceed to the secluded voting cubicle and indicate the candidate/party of their choice for the election with a thumb print. Voters
will then come to the ballot box placed in the full view of those assembled and drop the marked ballot paper.

*When two elections are held on the same day, each voter will receive two ballot papers, one for each election and mark them accordingly.

*Physically challenged voters may be accompanied into the secluded voting cubicle if they so request.
*Voting will continue until the last person on the queue has voted.

*After voting has ended, voters may remain to see the counting of the votes.

Vote Counting
*The total number of votes cast should not exceed the number of accredited voters at that polling unit; if it does, the results for that center will be automatically nullified.

*After the results are tallied, the appropriate forms are filled, copies given to party agents and other official observers at the center, and one copy is pasted at the polling center.

Vote Counting and Post-Poll Procedures
After the last person in the queue has voted, the Presiding Officer shall announce the closure of the poll and proceed to empty the contents of the box on the table. He or she will then:

*Sort the ballots for the different election types
*Sort the ballots according to the parties and those rejected
*Count the votes for each party loudly

*Record votes scored by each party in the Statement of Result ofPoH Form, i.e. the appropriate Form EC 8A series

*Announce the votes scored by each party
*Sign, stamp and date the Result Form and invite the party agent to also sign
*Distribute a copy of the result to each of the Party Agents, the police and if possible, other Security Personnel present

*Post the result of poll using Poster EC 60E
*Package all materials – used and unused – into the appropriate envelopes properly labeled and proceed to the Registration Area Collation Center

*Submit the Original Statement of Result of Poll to the Registration Area Collation Officer (RACOL)
*Submit the used and unused materials to the Supervisory Presiding Officer

Things to Remember for voting

Where Your polling unit

What to Bring

Your voter registration card

No Voting Card – Don’t come to the Polling Unit!

When

Arrive at the polling unit between 8-12 noon on election day.
Join the voting queue starting at 12:30pm.

Any Problem?
Cell Phones are welcome at the Polls. Use them to send Text messages to report any fraud, violence or election tampering:

Send SMS
Reports to:
08166662222; 08120006622; 08096662221

Call election Hotlines:
07070273671-9; 070702736781; 070702736782; 070702736783; 070702736784; 070702736785; 070702736789; 070702736787; 070702736788; 070702736789.

2011 Elections in figures
8809 –  the number of wards where elections will be conducted.
120,000 –  the number of polling units where the electorate can vote.
73528040 –  the number of Nigerians captured by INEC on its Direct Data Capturing machines.
54 – the number of political parties that nominated candidates for the elections
21 – the number of candidates to contest the presidential election.
4 – the number of parties fielding candidates for all categories of election – ACN, ANPP, CPC, PDP.
9 – number of political parties that did not nominate candidates for the election.
360,000 – number of AD Hoc staff recruited for the elections by INEC.

Source: INEC

Voters state by state

S/N    State        Tentative    Actual    Duplicate
Announced
1    Abia        1,481,191    1,524,484    17,522
2    Adamawa        1,714,860    1,816,094     9,773
3    Akwa Ibom    1,714,781    1,616,873    8,738
4    Anambra        1,758,220    2,011,746    33,747
5    Bauchi        1,835,562    2,523,614    7,451
6    Bayelsa         472,389    591,870    14,513
7    Benue        1,415,162    2,390,884    42,042
8    Borno        2,730,368    2,380,957    21,164
9    Cross River    1,018,550    1,148,486    39,085
10    Delta        1,900,055    2,032,191    17,166
11    Ebonyi        876,249    1,050,534    3,917
12    Edo        1,412225    1,655,776    6,277
13    Ekiti        750,753    764,726    2,868
14    Enugu        1,301,185    1,303,155    9,401
15    FCT        886,323    943,473       953
16    Gombe        1,266,993    1,318,377    18,730
17    Imo        1,611,715    1,687,293    11,082
18    Jigawa        1,852,598    2,013,974    23,148
19    Kaduna        3,565,762    3,905,387    95,563
20    Kano        5,135,415    5,027,297    10,784
21    Katsina        2,931,668    3,126,898    132,062
22    Kebbi        1,603,468    1,638,308    4,960
23    Kogi        1,215,405    1,316,849    7,003
24    Kwara        1,115,665    1,152,361    2,2,631
25    Lagos        6,247,845    6,108,069    13,932
26    Nassarawa        1,224,206    1,389,308    19,439
27    Niger         721,485    2,175,421    142,040
28    Ogun        1,869326    1,941,170    2,868
29    Ondo        1,558,975    1,616,091    14,761
30    Osun        1,293,967    1,293,967    14,762
31    Oyo        2,577,490    2,572,140    14,720
32    Plateau        1,983,453    2,259,194    8,125
33    Rivers        2,419,057    2,429,231    42,309
34    Sokoto        2,065,508    2,267,509    8,471
35    Taraba        1,308,106    1,336,221    41,069
36    Yobe        1,182,230    1,373,796    3,474
37    Zamfara        1,746,024    1,824,316    4,062
Total        67,764,334    73,528,040    870,612